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About reading, I lover that it can take you to other worlds when you're not so much enjoying your own. I love meeting so many new people (even if they're just fictional characters ;D), and I love talking about them!

Reading is my way of escaping reality. Sometimes it's the only way I can cope with everything going on. It transports me to another world where I can forget all my own problems, even if it's just for a little while.

I love reading because I can travel through this world and through others, I can become different people and do things I couldn't even dream of, and for a few hours I can forget whatever troubles me in this world.

I love the actual tactile feeling of turning pages and having a fictional world to disappear into. It's the best form of entertainment because it keeps you engaged and requires your active participation and imagination! I love language and the art of the written word!

Everything? I love everything about reading--I like my reading experiences to be immersive or subversive or transportive. I like my reading silly and serious and fun and weird. But what I love most about reading is that it can be all that and more.

There are so many things that I love about books and reading, and my fellow commenters have already touched upon... well, nearly all of them!

At this point in my life, just shy of three years after a nasty fallout from a long-term relationship with graduate school, I appreciate reading in a special sort of way. I can read WHATEVER I WANT, whenever I want. If I don't like a book, I can simply stop. I don't have to read outside in the snow and cold, in order to help fight sleep and finish a chapter. There are no timelines, deadlines, or syllabi. No awful "reaction papers." I could choose to read the most ridiculous nonsense, full of expletives and raunchy scenes, and no one would be there to judge or criticize. Books are FREEDOM to me.